Scripting Shame In African Literature

Author : Stephen L. Bishop
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 1800348436
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Scripting Shame in African Literature written by Stephen L. Bishop and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book locates the frequent expressions of shame in sub-Saharan African literature and shows how its diverse literary representations underscore shame's function as a fulcrum in the mutual constitution of subject and community on the continent employing both African and Western conceptions of the emotion.

Author : G. D. Killam
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book African Writers on African Writing written by G. D. Killam and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Flora Veit-Wild
Publisher : James Currey (GB)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Writing Madness written by Flora Veit-Wild and published by James Currey (GB). This book was released on 2006 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Charles Smith
Publisher : African Books Collective
ISBN 13 : 978370365X
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Female Subjectivities in African Literature written by Charles Smith and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2015-09-23 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In literature the ambiguous portraiture of female characters by some male writers and the phallic nature of men's writings have proved a matter of concern to female writers in Africa. For decades within African writing the issue of silencing was interrogated particularly as it addressed the muting and marginalisation of black women by male writers through the script of patriarchy which men follow. In this series we continue the literary and dramatic tradition of feminist concern for womens issues and we review novels, plays and poetry which demonstrate a commitment to exploring the challenges facing modern women in changing times and excerpting the issues of gender, feminism, identity, race, history, national and international politics specifically as they affect women. Female Subjectivities collectively answers the need to question and adumbrate the possibilities of literary revisions, showing what it would mean to revise even the Feminist psychoanalyst in a discourse on the subjectivity of women of colour.

Author : Ernest Emenyo̲nu
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1847010814
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Writing Africa in the Short Story written by Ernest Emenyo̲nu and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 2013 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Linus Tongwo Asong
Publisher : African Books Collective
ISBN 13 : 9956727660
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Psychological Constructs and the Craft of African Fiction of Yesteryears written by Linus Tongwo Asong and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2012 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The novel remains the most popular genre in the African literary landscape. In the very large body of criticism that has been devoted to the craft of African fiction, this very stimulating study of six African novels will hold its own distinctive place for a long while. It brings to African critical thought not only an exceptional acumen of interpretation and analysis, but something much more important to most of the previous serious literary study than mere technical dissection - a keen sense of the experience and imaginative truth that make Asong's selected African texts living books as well as authentic record of human and moral values. Many of Asong's perceptions are not only critically shrewd but humanly searching, alert to aesthetic quality and invention. No one interested in creative criticism of African fiction will read this book without finding its approach a challenge to his or her own reading of African fiction, and a stimulus to understanding the growth and enduring richness of the best of the African novel. The book balances nicely in its choice of three texts in English and three in French, the two dominant colonial languages in Africa South of the Sahara. Even more interesting is the fact that although all the French texts have been translated into English, Asong opts to treat the three in the original language in which they were conceived and executed, a decision which keeps the reader as close as possible to the original idiom.

Author : Evan M. Mwangi
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438426976
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Africa Writes Back to Self written by Evan M. Mwangi and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2010-07-02 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The profound effects of colonialism and its legacies on African cultures have led postcolonial scholars of recent African literature to characterize contemporary African novels as, first and foremost, responses to colonial domination by the West. In Africa Writes Back to Self, Evan Maina Mwangi argues instead that the novels are primarily engaged in conversation with each other, particularly over emergent gender issues such as the representation of homosexuality and the disenfranchisement of women by male-dominated governments. He covers the work of canonical novelists Nadine Gordimer, Chinua Achebe, NguÅgiÅ wa Thiong'o, and J. M. Coetzee, as well as popular writers such as Grace Ogot, David Maillu, Promise Okekwe, and Rebeka Njau. Mwangi examines the novels' self-reflexive fictional strategies and their potential to refigure the dynamics of gender and sexuality in Africa and demote the West as the reference point for cultures of the Global South.

Author : Derek Wright
Publisher : Bayreuth African Studies
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Contemporary African Fiction written by Derek Wright and published by Bayreuth African Studies. This book was released on 1997 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ogude, James
Publisher : Africa Institute of South Africa
ISBN 13 : 0798304901
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chinua Achebeís Legacy written by Ogude, James and published by Africa Institute of South Africa. This book was released on 2015-12-01 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chinua Achebe's novels and essays have always drawn our attention to issues of memory, the story, history and our own obligation to history as Africans. Achebe constantly goes back to the authority of narrative - the story; and as the subsequent generations of African writers like Chimamanda Adichie keep returning to, to celebrate Africa's many stories, its moments of failure and triumph. Achebe, more than any other writer on this continent, has inspired many, and hopefully the African story tellers of the coming centuries, irrespective of their location will continue to be inspired by him. This collection of essays is an enduring tribute to this rich legacy of Achebe.

Author : Oumar Chérif Diop
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781569026229
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.2X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Violence and Trauma in Selected African Literature written by Oumar Chérif Diop and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: